Open thread: Sunday morning talking heads

posted at 8:01 am on March 30, 2014 by Allahpundit

A slow news week means a change of pace for the Sunday morning chatfest. Star guest: Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, who’ll be on “Face the Nation” and “State of the Union” to update people on the search for survivors after the horrific mudslide in Snohomish County. The death toll stands at 26 as I write this but is expected to rise; the last story I read about the search for survivors had a member of the search team discovering his own sister’s body in the rubble.

If that’s not for you, the other shows have lined up yet another round of squabbling over the NSA featuring the usual suspects — Dianne Feinstein, Mike Rogers, Ron Wyden, and Michael Hayden, among others. And McCain will be on “Political Capital” on Bloomberg TV, just because America can’t survive a Sunday without a Maverick cameo somewhere on morning television. The full line-up is at Politico.

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Today’s lineup gives us more of what we have come to expect with mind-numbing consistency from the Pauline Kael Media: opinions from their own left-of-center world, and to hell with your silly diversity.

This is just about as bad a lineup for airing the full spectrum of political voices that I can even remember. This is DNC propaganda, straight up, orchestrated by liberal Democrats, and presented by liberal Democrats. Viewers of C-Span will be the only ones who hear a message that more than half of America is familiar with.

Thank you for your summary of the Sunday morning shows, and thank you for your accurate assessment of Jay Inslee, who, unfortunately, is the governor of my state. I’d take Gregoire back over him, and that’s saying a lot. Bleah. :-(

Better yet … will anyone from the DNC Media ever take a quick look at the Democrat Congressional Crime Wave?

Jaibones on March 30, 2014 at 9:23 AM …thanks for the line-up Jaibones!….I have a ton of kitty-litters to change in the garage, for the wild kitties…it’s not freezing today!
If all the headquarters for the DNC media were to burn down to the ground one of these days…I couldn’t be happier!

I notice the Washington landslide is the picture on this piece, and I wonder if anyone else has noticed that while there have been some questions raised about how quickly the National Guard was brought in, the hasn’t been a peep of comment, much less criticism, about the role of governor Jay Inslee or president Obama. No questions about where they were or how soon they knew and what they did. And although it has come to light that a state study indicated that the potential for disaster was there in 2009, and state inspectors missed a logging incursion into the danger zone, nobody in the media has been asking for accountability.

Let’s see, who was gov in 2009… why it was two-term Governor Christine Gregoire, a Democrat like current governor Inslee. Ever notice how few scandals (and “gaffes”) there are when Democrats run things? It’s like they can do no wrong and never accidently say something stupid or insensitive. Gosh what kind, generous and wise masters Democrats are!

I love a little laugh in the morning. Thank you and definitely spot on.

Cindy Munford on March 30, 2014 at 11:04 AM

A little inside joke there. Tried a rational conversation last night toward defusing the RINO-Conservative death pact. Didn’t work, and one of The True Believers ended up accusing me (me!) of “defending McCain” … even though I had referred to him variously as a whiny b1tch, delusional, and an ultimate RINO, but not a liar!

The best nugget from Rogers interview was that Russia is moving forces into South Ossetia in former Georgian territory. He felt they were likely to attach Georgia and move on to take Armenia to create a land route to Iran. I think it would be to cut the planned natural gas pipeline from Azerbaijan to Europe that would bypass Russia. This action would both preserve Russia’s natural gas revenue and its stranglehold over Europe’s energy supply. Smart move by Putin once again thinking about 8 moves ahead of the West.

Actually, I don’t review the Propaganda Shows from a partisan perspective, but from ideology. You might have noticed the minor quirky detail where every guest is sort of rated on the kook-left-to-conservative-right continuum?

As for your electoral analysis, your “half” includes about 10% of the people who answer polls, claiming that they are conservative. Maybe that word does not mean what they think it means, or maybe there are a bunch of people (farmers, blue collar union workers, teachers) who are generally conservative, but vote Democrat out of some sense of economic self-interest.

I know lots of very conservative union members, for instance, who hate Republicans and rightly so — they are the beneficiaries of corrupt government run by city Democrats, like in Chicago. Their social connections rig elections and government contracts — sort of like the mob … actually just like the mob — and use taxpayer money to hire their friends and influence sectors of the voting public. The farmers are just as bad — conservative thinkers generally who nonetheless seem to rationalize the myriad Farm Bill programs which pay them to grow weeds or sell corn for ethanol, etc.

Yeah, these are not ethical conservatives from a philosophical perspective, but other than their economic self-interest, they largely fit into the conservative profile. They are not liberals.